Aiming towards a culmination in a March 2008 exhibition, I'm in the process of creating a four-part video piece that comprises the past four years of preparation. Through my investigation of the Buddhist concept of "emptiness," I've been seeking to show through a concrete perspective the infinite cognitive perspectives possible in viewing a single object.
The video is a thus a work grounded in this intention, to "see things as they really are," aimed towards an awakening to the possibility that all of our lives can be much, much happier.
In the combined images of <Hell Gate>, <Hungry Ghost>, <Bodhisattva> and <Hide and Seek> are the shapes and forms of our own selves that appear on the path towards enlightenment, as we search for the mind of happiness.

<마 음>

보이지 않는 것을 볼 수 있고
길이 없는 곳에서도 나아갈 수 있는 힘은 마음에서 나온다.

마음을 올바로 이해하는 것,
나를 알고 세상을 아는 유일한 길이리라....

작업을 해 나가는 것은 늘 자신의 마음을 살피는 일과 다르지 않음을 알게 되었다.

이제, 그 작업 속에서 알아차림을 연습하며
현상의 본래 모습에 다가가고자 한다.

내 마음의 주인공을 찾아...

<Mind>

A power arises from the mind,
a power that allows one to see that
which is invisible and to go places no path leads.

As we sit and stand, lie down, bend over, and roll on to our stomachs...
we give off an endlessly changing appearance.
Through the awareness cultivated in meditation,
my eyes have begun to focus on my body's minute motions.
And now my camera eye more delicately articulates even the smallest movements of the human form.

Capturing the images of the body moment by moment, it becomes clear that there is no singular fixed state of the human form of which it can be said, "this is the body..."

This is from a video series that embodies movement, edited from the final result of a work filming an engagementwith the temporal and spatial transformations of a human form wearing clothing composed of a distorted dancheong pattern.

I plan on composing it in four parts.

Part 1: Introduction_ Emptiness and Form - a Collection of Images(Completed)

Part 2: Observing with sense of distance (Scheduled completion: end of March 2007)